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Title: The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks
Year: 1816 (1810s)
Authors: Man, John, of Reading, Eng
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Publisher: Reading : Printed by Snare and Man
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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upwards with the fore finger ofhis left, in appropriate habiliments, one being dressed in blue, the other in green,with the following inscriptions on two tablets, placed against the wall, on eachside the figures: The blue-coat hoy. Clad in this hieroglyphic -veil.Two niystick emblems I reveal ;The sacred volume in my hand.Directs you to the promised land, My azure mantle of the sky,To heavn above directs your eye;While to its seat I guide your look.Your guide to find it is this book. The green-coat ioi/. The Great Creator at its birth.Did in my garment cloath the earth.Whose emblem sets before your c^es.The scene of the first paradise. ♦ An ancestor of the present right honorable lord Braybrook. There is a full-length picture ofhim in the council chamber, holdinga book in his right hand ; on one side, is represented a globe, witha female figure standing on it ; over her liead, on a scroll, Veritas omnia vatct. On the other side, is adeaths head, and under it, 7)iors vdhi salus. PI n
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EisMonument-in Sonniruf Church .Berks. SCHOOLS. 205 The sacred oracles that tellHow from it our first parents felljHere teach us how by grace to winThe paradise they lost by sin. It is difficult to discover what motives could induce the corporation to erectthis building on so confined a spot^ at a time when they were possessed of land inthe neigliborhoodj so much better adapted to the purpose; even the piece ofground allotted to the house for a garden, would have been much more eligiblethan the present situation, where the children have only a paved court, aboutforty feet square, to play in, walled in on every side, where the rays of the sunnever penetrate, and where the atmosphere must be particularly noxious, fromthe want of a free circulation. In the year 1657, they purchased, with this legacy, a farm at Sherfield,for the sum of two thousand pounds, and in 1659, with the further sum of onethousand nine hundred and ninety pounds, they purchased another farm, ad-joining, making toget

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